Wednesday, April 9, 2014

YOUNG BUT NOT YOUNG ANYMORE

Victor(14 yrs old) sitting by her babies.
I have been really away from our blogs and I am so sorry for not updating you all my dear friends and well-wishers of this ministry. So much has been happening and the ministry is growing so fast that I slowed a little bit due to other commitments. Now we are back: Fasten your belt and let us jump.
For the past three to four months we have been encountering so many young teenage mothers than we ever encountered before. Most of these young girls range between 13 years old and 19 years old; about 71% of these girls are 14 years old and 15 years old ,26% of hem are 16 years old and 17 years old,the rest being 18 years old, very few of them are 19 years old.
This number is seriously worrying. It is so sad because most of these 13,14,and 15 years old girls are rape cases with no help at all. We have had so many cases of C- sections .These girls come from very poor and needy families, who can hardly afford the treatment and let alone the feeding during the stay at the hospital.
Monica's babies as we found them.
Monica(15 yrs old)
Monica 15 years old, Victor  14 years old and Winnie 16 years old are the few of such cases that we have this week besides the other cases of women we have had since Monday this week. Each of these girls had their babies by C- section.
Monica was abused by a man and left pregnant, now she is a mother of a pair of twins. We found her at the hospital with a friend looking after her. She has developed a serious cough and in need of antibiotics for both her cough and her operation. her baby was naked. The father of her baby disappeared from the village after knowing she was pregnant.

 Victor's baby,the other is in the oxygen
Zainah delivering the WIC blessing bag
Victor 14 years old also had twins. she looks very young but now she is a mother. She was a school girl until she got raped and left pregnant. Her poor mother is in the hospital with her but she cannot do more than looking at them since she has no money for treatment. Victor's babies were both naked when we found them. I felt so sad and my heart was heavy watching this little girl trying so hard to breast feed her babies , she does not know how to hold her babies, she needs help, one baby is sick and they have no money to buy the prescribed drugs for the baby to get treatment. Thank God my colleague Zainah shared the love of Christ with little Victor and she gave her life to Christ. She has a big smile on her face though she can hardly look you in the eyes. Her face is constantly looking down even when she is smiling.  oh how I wanted to grab those babies and take them with me.
Winnie 16 years old was abandoned at the hospital and her Caesarean wound was now infected and she was basically stinking ,she hadn't taken a bath for two days, her wound was bringing out pus,oh my God, no she couldn't afford to buy a syringe ,gloves ,antibiotics, food or anything in that case. she lay down in pain and her face looked hopeless.
I love the hope the Name of Jesus brings.
We had great moment with the three girls at the hospital, we even afforded some laughter, we smiled, they giggled, we held them and prayed with them.
The babies were all dressed up, we had food for them, medication was provided,gloves,syringes,and friends.
I really love the hope Jesus brings in these lives.
Thank you for donating towards Hope for Women In Crisis.
We are able to provide medication,transportation,food,baby clothes,bedding,and above all else the love of Christ to these young mothers who feel worthless and abandoned by their own .
The reward is priceless; looking at the smile come on the once sad faces, looking at a baby who was once naked and cold being dressed warm and beautiful, having these lives changed by just a simple act of kindness, most importantly the souls finding their way to Christ and surrendering to His Lordship.
I love doing this over and over.
God blessed me with a wonderful team of three ladies working tirelessly by my side. I love these daughters of God.
I will write sooner again.
( These are just a few more of the serious cases we have had since last week)